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“Ben, make sure you play Take My Hand, Precious Lord in the meeting tonight. Play it real pretty.” The last words Martin Luther King ever said before he died to a tragic ending of his life.
Martin’s assassination was unjustified because he was a man who stood up for justice , equality, and nonviolence. However, many felt that his ability to bring words and ideas to life, to inspire people, and to wake people up were very dangerous in a system built with manipulation and deceptions.
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Martin lead many protests, boycotts, and peaceful marches throughout his life trying to make justice by various movements. Some of the most controversial movements lead were the Albany Movement in 1961, in which not much success was made because …show more content…

We had to use our mass meetings to explain nonviolence to a community of people who had never heard of the philosophy and in many instances were not sympathetic with it. We had meetings twice a week on Mondays and on Thursdays, and we had an institute on nonviolence and social change. We had to make it clear that nonviolent resistance is not a method of cowardice. It does resist. It is not a method of stagnant passivity and deadening complacency. The nonviolent resister is just as opposed to the evil that he is standing against as the violent resister but he resists without violence. This method is nonaggressive physically but strongly aggressive spiritually.’’ (Power of Nonviolence 2) Most of the times when they lead peaceful marches the police attacked by harming people. A Lot of the african american people were against martin saying that that would just make more problems and just harm people even more than they were already. But even with that Martin did not stop his cause. Martin was the most peaceful and loving person anyone could have met. Every march he led were peaceful for example a very controversial march was the March on Washington in 1963. Where he gave his most famous speech ‘’I Have A Dream’’. The march was peaceful, and had an estimated 200,000 - 300,000 people. It was successful helping to pass civil rights legislation in 1964 and

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